Thursday, August 6, 2015

SEVENTY YEARS AGO TODAY

At 8:15 a.m.
on August 6, 1945 an American military bomber released an Atomic weapon on a
civilian population. The bomb detonated
at 1900 feet above Hiroshima, Japan killing 140,000 of the 350,000 inhabitants.

Don't give me any shit a about ending the war early or collateral damage. War is between military combatants. An attack aimed at a civilian population is a war crime.

Winners of wars get to write the history so you will not see this in a high school American or World history book.

A crime against humanity - but begs the question: are humans capable of humanity, or so egocentric that we can justify something as heinous as this.

Between Hiroshima and Nagasaki the death tole of civilians - women, children, old people, babies, fathers, mothers, noncombatants - is estimated at 420,000 - nearly a half-million. And no birds sang! We can't justify that.Dropping these bombs was a crime against humanity...we get to write the history and we have tried to justify our actions - to white wash the carnage by claiming unknowable statistics as justification. There is no justification for mass murder of civilian populations.the Ol'Buzzard

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